The Polish bride

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Movie
German title The Polish bride
Original title De Poolse Bruid
Country of production Netherlands
original language Dutch
Publishing year 1998
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Karim Traidia
script Kees van der Hulst
production Marc Bary
Jeroen Beker
Frans van Gestel
Ilana Netiv
music Fons Merkies
camera Jacques Laureys
cut Chris Teerink
occupation

The Polish Bride (original title De Poolse bruid , international The Polish Bride ) is a Dutch film from 1998 by Karim Traïdia . The film tells of a love story, but at the same time paints a romantic picture of life on the Hogeland (also Hoogeland ), a higher coastal region north of Groningen . This can also be heard in the music contributions by folk singer Ede Staal , which are used in the film .

action

The young Polish girl Anna tries to escape her (Dutch) pimps on the flat land of Groningen and flees to the farm of the bachelor Henk. The farmer doesn't ask questions and picks them up. She helps around the house and is learning Dutch. Just as the two get closer, the pimps appear to get her. The farmer takes drastic measures to protect his guest.

backgrounds

The Polish Bride is a contribution to the four-part Route 2000 series, a (originally five-part) film project by VPRO , the executive Motel Films Produktion and the Dutch Film Fund from 1998. Young Dutch directors should have a modest budget to share their vision of the end of the 20th century put on canvas. Only 20 days were made available for filming. The cost of the film was 600,000 guilders ( 272,270 euros ). This multi-part film funding project , as well as the follow-up series No More Heroes (2001), is reissued about every two to three years and numbered in Roman under the name De Oversteek ( Dutch for 'The Crossing', also the name of a bridge in Nijmegen ) .

The shots in the landscape were shot in the municipality of De Marne , between the villages of Ulrum and Kloosterburen . The farm shown in the film, now a hotel, is located on the northwestern edge of the village of Ulrum, in an area called De Hucht . The city scenes were filmed in Groningen .

Little is spoken in this film. This is based on the circumstances shown in the film, according to which the Polish woman does not speak Dutch and the lonely farmer is also very taciturn for his part.

The song t Hogelaand by the Groningen dialect singer Ede Staal (1941–1986) is part of his repertoire and was not written specifically for the film.

Because director Traïdia concentrated the scenario on the development of the relationship between the two protagonists, the screenwriter Kees van der Hulst requested a mention in the credits, after which he distances himself from Traïdia's directorial work.

Awards

In 2006 there was an Australian remake with the title Unfinished Sky (working title: The Afghan Bride ) in which Hendrickx took over the female lead again. The farmer was played by William McInnes . Monic Hendrickx received the Inside Film Award for this at the Gold Coast Film Festival .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PRIX EUROPA 1998 - the Awards, PDF 1 MB , German
  2. ↑ AD.nl - Showbizz - Monic Hendrickx wint Australian filmprijs

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